Neutrino Studies at the Spallation Neutron Source

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
currently under construction at ORNL will bombard a mercury target with
a 1.0-GeV proton beam to produce the world's most intense beams of
pulsed neutrons for research. The decay of mesons in the mercury
target will also
produce a flux of about 1015 neutrinos/s. A project is
currently being developed to untilize the world's most intense source
of
pulsed neutrinos to measure the cross sections for neutrino
interactions with atomic nuclei.